To the Ends of the Earth: The Truth Behind the Glory of Polar Exploration - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781633884113ISBN-10:1633884112UPC:9781633884113Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & Discoveries, Polar Regions, Social HistorySize:9.00 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC5TPXF359
To the Ends of the Earth: The Truth Behind the Glory of Polar Exploration
This fascinating social history of polar expeditions examines the cultural trends that produced these daring, even reckless journeys.From the late-17th to the early 20th century, intrepid explorers from America and Europe risked (and sometimes lost) their lives exploring the forbidding, uncharted landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctica. What drove these men to undertake these seemingly impossible...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781633884113ISBN-10:1633884112UPC:9781633884113Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & Discoveries, Polar Regions, Social HistorySize:9.00 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC5TPXF359
John V. H. Dippel, an independent historian, is the author of Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death: The Impact of America's First Climate Crisis; War and Sex: A Brief History of Men's Urge for Battle; Ordinary Radicals: Portraits of Lives Changed by the Sixties; Race to the Frontier: "White Flight" and Western Expansion; Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision...
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